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Good Morning

@MattE.Эллен Good morning. I watched the votes live last night, LOL.

glad someone is watching the mess unfold. I'm too tired to keep up

Today in sentences I never thought I'd I read:

> My badger-excavated bottle collection is installed in a fish tank

It's kinda funny but...

Oh, yeah?

@Cerberus Yeah? Yeah.

And I mean that.

Strongly.

Oh, yeah.

What does it mean?

Haha.

I have no idea what that's supposed to mean.

Maybe "of" instead of "or"?

Hmm impossible to say without context.

I'm applying for a business week and I don't know if they want my document or my parents' one

But I think mine

keep hunger-free is actually not easy

when you eat too much, your stomache feels uncomfortable

if you eat to around the full level, it gets hungry again around 6 hours later

when you are not hungry, food may be easily available

when food is not easily available, hunger haunts you so hard

I think even nonbabies also need a dedicated food server to keep hunger-free

babies are said to be demanded to serve; they may wake up in the wee hour crying for hunger

but nonbabies can also wake in the wee hours feeling hungry

@Curio I have no idea without more context.

@Cerberus Not really. I feel it's a bit late to make such life-changing decisions at this age!

oblique designates geometric lines or planes that are neither parallel nor perpendicular.

@Gigili When in doubt, postpone!

so is there a word which designates lines that are perpendicular but don't dwell in the same plane?

@Cerberus Yeah, I know the trick quite well. That's what I've been doing for the past 12 years or so.

It's flower and poplar time, don't forget our gift, @Færd!

@Gigili Smart.

@Gigili You have given him allergy pills?

@CaptainBohemian Yeah. non-existent.

there's a word for lines that neither intersect nor are parallel.

which means they must not be in the sae plane.

this is called 'skew'.

But there are different angles at which they can be in different planes, aren't there?

@Mitch I asked that question because this spring equinox Live Science says "During two special times twice a year, the tilt is actually perpendicular to the sun, which means that Earth is equally illuminated in the Northern and Southern hemispheres," I doubt the appropriateness of using "perpendicular" here.

The spin axis of earth is not in the same plane as the sun is.

Of course you can take the plane including the spin axis and the sun, but ...

I feel saying "the tilt is actually perpendicular to the sun" sounds not correct

maybe it should say "the tilt is actually perpendicular to the sunshine".

@CaptainBohemian The axis and rotation of the sun are actually not directly relevant to that statement.

@Cerberus its tilt is just the spin axis of earth.

But that isn't directly relevant, is it?

It would be a matter of two lines intersecting perpendicularly at a specific point: the Earth's axis and the line passing through the Sun and the Earth, both lines passing through the Earth perpendicularly at that specific date.

Hi guys

Math in ELU? Gads.

@Cerberus otherwise what do you take that statement to mean? the tilt is a line, the sun is a sphere or a point in distant approximation. What does "a line is perpendicular to a sphere or point" mean?

isn't tilt a plane?

@Jolenealaska the tilt above means the spin axis of Earth.

ah

that tilt just means it is tilted with respect to its orbital plane around the sun.